Dr.-Ing. Laura De Laporte

Research Group 'Hierarchical Tissue Engineering'

Research Interests

Engineer injectable biomaterials that form an anisotropic microheterogeneous structure in vivo. Injectable hydrogels enable a minimal invasive in situ generation of matrices for the regeneration of tissues and organs, but currently lack structural organization and unidirectional orientation

Synthesize and modify biomaterials with functional domains to fine-tune their biological properties for specific tissue repair application, and to enable them to function as local delivery vehicles to release DNA and proteins in a spatially and temporally controlled manner